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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) Josiah Winslow.
(b) William Hubbard.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) John Alderman.

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?, due to their great losses, many New England colonists thought God was punishing them for their failure to do what?
(a) Convert the Indians to Christianity.
(b) Kill all of the Indians.
(c) Remain loyal to the Crown.
(d) Maintain purity.

3. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Narragansett tribe.
(d) The Pocomtuc tribe.

4. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Voting rights.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mythology.

5. When did Nathaniel Saltonstall die?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1718.
(c) 1707.
(d) 1725.

6. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?
(a) 1631.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1647.
(d) 1616.

7. When was Metacomet born?
(a) 1675.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1639.

8. What was the name of the Algonquian language?
(a) Nanatuncket.
(b) Massachusett.
(c) Mohegan.
(d) Ouachitan.

9. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) Richard Callicot.

10. Who is thought to have mentored John Sassamon?
(a) James Williams.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) John Eliot.
(d) John Alderman.

11. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) Enemy.
(b) Chief of chiefs.
(c) White man.
(d) Child of the shaman.

12. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Boston College.
(d) Harvard College.

13. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

14. John Eliot's efforts as a missionary earned him what nickname?
(a) "The Indian apostle".
(b) "Saint Eliot".
(c) "The Christian apostle".
(d) "The White apostle".

15. At what age did Hugo Grotius publish his first book?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 22.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?

2. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?

3. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?

4. When did Hugo Grotius die?

5. What were the villages of Christian Indians called?

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